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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 3 page 1
  It was not only in [[Mansfield|Mansfield]] and the district immediately connected with the crime that public feeling was excited and al ...r a pleasure than otherwise, was well know and hated by the farmers of the district before he became an outlaw. Two or three miles from the scene of Power’s
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• Cookson, 05 09 1911 3
  ...h-eastern district to arrest Ned. I left Melbourne with a man who knew the district as well as I did. After three months search I discovered one of his haunts, ...the whole country was searched. We heard that the bushrangers crossed the Ovens River, and that they intended to go to New South Wales.
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 2 page 1
  ...he 1st January, 1854, as a lieutenant. I was sent off at once to the Ovens district, and my first duty was to take charge of the gold escort from Beechworth to In 1855 I was staying for the night at a station owned by Dr. Mackay, on the Ovens River . Mrs. Mackay was very ill, and the doctor, who was a tall, slight ma
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 2 page 5
  ...was well known to be a confederate of the horse and cattle stealers in the district, but he always escaped detection. A bridge having been erected over the riv Most wonderful accounts would immediately be spread all over the district that some very rich ground had been discovered, and at once people would fl
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/8/1860 (2)
  ...avail themselves of it. Had I, or many other persons now residing in that district, been assisted by the Government, I flatter myself that our local knowledge ...d over, comparatively untried, to push forward to a prospected part of the district, of which, though apparently unknown to the Government, your files of 1858
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• The Argus at KellyGang 22/8/1860
  ...opeans, and an increase of 539 Chinese. The nature of the diggings in this district is almost entirely alluvial-nine-tenths of which are under 30 feet in depth ...he Nine-mile Division, the most important work in operation is that of the Ovens Water Company, on which 142 men ore employed opening up the springs, excava
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/8/1860 (2)
  ...; and so extensive was the view, that we recognized the water-sheds of the Ovens, the Mitta Mitta, and the Dargo rivers - the same slate ranges running into
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• The Argus at KellyGang 2/4/1861
  ...ON APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE SUBJECT OF WATER RIGHTS IN THE BEECHWORTH DISTRICT ...tem of Water Rights now prevailing in the [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] Mining District; the best means of preventing litigation with regard to Water Bights; and t
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• The Argus at KellyGang 2/4/1861 (2)
  ...version of water. For about nine months after the discovery of gold on the Ovens, cradling was the only means adopted for its extraction, and no distinction Many miners left the district despairing of payable ground being discovered within a reasonable distance
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• The Argus at KellyGang 2/4/1861 (4)
  INCREASE OF WATER SUPPLY TO THE OVENS DISTRICT. ...of knowledge of the subject than would suffice to double the supply of the district. It should be the duty of this officer to act with the local water boards,
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/3/1862
  ...], Reid's Creek, and the Napoleon, all suffer from the common misfortune,- Ovens Murray Advertiser March 8.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/8/1864
  '''THE OVENS DISTRICT, ITS PHYSICAL CHARACTER, AND MINERAL RESOURCES''' ...on the physical character and mineral resources of a portion of the Ovens district has been lately received by the Honourable the Minister of Mines:
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/8/1864 (2)
  ...ared, with my present limited knowledge of the adjoining divisions of this district, to recommend any particular scheme of water supply, I am led to conclude t ...ntages that would be derived from a half-inch geological map of the entire district.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/7/1865
  (BY THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE OVENS ADVERTISER, JUNE 27) ...me there were six or seven gentlemen in attendance, all well known in this district as being squatters, or farmers, in the vicinity of the land open for select
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/8/1865
  ...tension at Morse's Creek, and the probable discovery of a deep lead on the Ovens River.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/5/1866
  TO THE OVENS AND MURRAY DISTRICTS ...es were also requested to attend from the border city of Albury, which the Ovens and Murray districts claim almost as their own, but a telegram announced th
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/5/1866 (2)
  ...ous obstacles to be overcome in the construction of a railway to the Ovens District, and that even the present amount of traffic would pay for the outlay on th ...ying been taken towards the initiation of a line of railway to connect the Ovens and Murray Districts with the capital city of the colony." He said tha
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/5/1866 (3)
  ...d it as good a gold-field as Ballarat; in fact, the returns from the Ovens district were much greater, and with a railway the capitalists would very soon see a ...all aware that there were hundreds of reefs known to be idle all over the district that would yield more than that, but which, even with that yield, would pay
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/5/1866 (4)
  ...y was higher now than it was when the other loans were contracted; but the Ovens people had put forward no such plea when called upon to make those roads an ...o the Ovens was for their benefit even more than that of the people of the district. The resolution was carried unanimously.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/5/1866 (5)
  ...present the same to the Executive Government; and that the members for the district and leading men in Melbourne be invited to accompany the deputation, and su ...g a main trunk line of railway from Melbourne through the Ovens and Murray District, without referring to any particular route."
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